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Beneath Wandering Stars

Ashlee Cowles · Merit Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

After her soldier brother is horribly wounded in Afghanistan, Gabriela must honor the vow she made: If anything ever happened to him, she would walk the Camino de Santiago through Spain, making a pilgrimage in his name. The worst part is that the promise stipulates that she must travel...
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Like Water

Rebecca Podos · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Like Water is an unforgettable story of two girls navigating the unknowable waters of identity, millennial anxiety, and first love, from the acclaimed author of The Mystery of Hollow Places. In Savannah Espinoza's small New Mexico hometown, kids either flee after graduation or they're trapped...
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Tell Me Three Things

Julie Buxbaum · Delacorte Press
Pages: 329
Format: Print book

What if the person you need the most is someone you've never met? Julie Buxbaum mixes comedy and tragedy, love and loss, pain and elation, in her debut YA novel whose characters will come to feel like friends. Tell Me Three Things will appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven,...
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Brothers in Arms

Paul Langan · Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Welcome to Bluford High. This widely acclaimed teen series set in an urban high school features engaging, accessible writing and appealing, contemporary storylines.Martin Luna is in deep trouble. Just months ago, a horrible tragedy took his little brother, and now it threatens to take him too....
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Trouble Makes a Comeback

Stephanie Tromly · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

An utterly satisfying sequel packed with razor-sharp dialogue, a love triangle you didn't see coming, and the most charismatic dynamic duo you ever met.Now that the infuriating and irresistible Philip Digby has left town for a lead on his sister who disappeared years ago, Zoe Webster is looking...
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The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle

Janet Fox · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Keep calm and carry on." That's what Katherine Bateson's father told her, and that's what she's trying to do: when her father goes off to the war, when her mother sends Kat and her brother and sister away from London to escape the incessant bombing, even when...
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How the Internet Is Changing Society

Carla Mooney · ReferencePoint Press
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

In the years since its introduction, the Internet has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies in human history. Yet because the Internet and how it is used is constantly changing, many people believe that the Internets impact has just begun, with many more changes to come.
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X: A Novel

Ilyasah Shabazz · Candlewick Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/TeensA 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookCowritten by Malcolm X's daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world.Malcolm Little's...
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Banished

Kimberley Griffiths Little · Harper
Pages: 407
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of Cleopatra's Moon and the adult bestseller The Red Tent, this is the epic sequel to Forbidden, set in the unforgiving deserts of ancient Mesopotamia. Jayden's courage will be put to the test as she fights for her survival and the one she loves.Jayden thought she had lost...
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The Star-touched Queen

Roshani Chokshi · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you're only seventeen?Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father's kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly...
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Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide

Elizabeth Irwin · Workman Publishing
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

It's the revolutionary English language arts study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest. Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . . covers everything to get you your best marks: grammar, including parts of speech, active and passive...
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The Host: A Novel

Stephenie Meyer · Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds...
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Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon · Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

The Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerIf you love Eleanor and Park, Hazel and Augustus, and Mia and Adam, you'll love the story of Maddy, a girl who's literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly, the boy who moves in next door . . . and becomes the greatest risk she's...
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Instructions for a Secondhand Heart

Tamsyn Murray · Poppy
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A moving novel about grief, guilt, and the unpredictability of love, for fans of Everything, Everything and All the Bright Places. Jonny knows better than anyone that life is full of cruel ironies. He's spent every day in a hospital hooked up to machines to keep his heart ticking. Then...
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Dear Martin

Nic Stone · Listening Library

Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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